[Tex/LaTex] Kile document doesn’t work well in WinEdt. How to convert it

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If I save a document in Kile (on Linux) and and open it in WinEdt (Windows) my text is in a bad format.

For example:

If I have a kile document named main.tex (saved using the UTF-8 encoding) with:

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,fleqn,oneside,openright]{book}

\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[portuges,brazil,brazilian]{babel}

\begin{document}

\chapter{Introdução}\label{Chapter:Introduction}

\section{Apresentação}\label{Section:Presentation}

Este é um texto em português, com várias acentuações. % This is a brazilian portuguese text with several accents.

\end{document}

My output using Kile is:

Kile.png

But opening the same file in WinEdt I get something like:

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,fleqn,oneside,openright]{book}

\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[portuges,brazil,brazilian]{babel}

\begin{document}

\chapter{Introdução}\label{Chapter:Introduction}

\section{Apresentação}\label{Section:Presentation}

Este é um texto em português, com várias acentuações. % This is a brazilian portuguese with several accents.

\end{document}

which is not readable to me.

I did a complete article in Kile, but unfortunately I need it working in WinEdt too, because I need to use the tool tex2word.

If I try to use (copying and pasting) the readable kile document to winedt, for example, using this

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,fleqn,oneside,openright]{book}

\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[portuges,brazil,brazilian]{babel}

\begin{document}

\chapter{Introdução}\label{Chapter:Introduction}

\section{Apresentação}\label{Section:Presentation}

Este é um texto em português, com várias acentuações. % This is a brazilian portuguese with several accents.

\end{document}

my document won't compile and I get errors.

Error:

package utf8x Error: MalformedUTF-8sequence

So, how can I get a readable document (created by Kile) on WinEdt with the same output (readable too)?

Best Answer

From http://www.winedt.com/about.html

... WinEdt has currently a limited capability to handle UTF-8 documents. Full support for Unicode is planned when a transition to the new version of Delphi will be completed.

New functionality (like folding and full support for utf-8) is planned for future versions of WinEdt...

This announcement has been on that page since at least a couple of years. The "limited capability to handle" seems to refer to the fact that only a very limited set of Unicode points is manageable.

You can use on Kile an encoding that's managed also by WinEdt, for example Latin-1. Kile has the ability of converting files from the main window (and to use by default a different encoding than UTF-8): see configure Kile to use other encodings

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